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had opened in 1979 a few hundred yards away, the Cameo was no longer the only public cinema in
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Poole had begun by rescuing a decaying building with a leaky roof. Later he was able to take over an adjacent shop which, in
December 1963, became the first cinema bar in the city
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early 1990s. A 2005 renovation plan proposing to change the original auditorium into a bar-restaurant was withdrawn after a well-supported 'Save the Cameo' campaign influenced
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films in its repertoire and started its association with the
Edinburgh Film Festival in 1949, when it presented a 'Continental Film Festival', including a screen version of
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before the Second World War, and after a posting as army entertainments officer in the Middle East, wanted to open a venue in
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